Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe93aca906a6d6f4…

MALICIOUS

RTF

43.4 KB Created: 2017-09-18 17:30:00 First seen: 2017-10-10
MD5: 48775b5f862888dfa55964bd4f83d91a SHA-1: 087e962972d96607a6c73b495e1dc316914af4b7 SHA-256: fe93aca906a6d6f48e9bb8331233eacba1b089d7850e13b6761899a7d88da1e3
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The RTF file contains an OLE object that exploits CVE-2017-0199, a known vulnerability for remote code execution. The exploit targets the URL https://fex.net/load/983458568842/49873636 to download and execute a secondary payload. This indicates a likely spearphishing attachment designed to deliver malware.

Heuristics 6

  • CVE-2017-0199 (OLE2Link / remote URL Moniker) critical CVE likely CVE_2017_0199
    RTF contains a URL Moniker OLE link whose decoded target is remote. Office can fetch and process the response through the CVE-2017-0199 OLE2Link attack path, but the server-side content type is not proven statically.
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_0199-6335035-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_0199-6335035-0
  • Automatically linked OLE object high RTF_OBJAUTLINK
    RTF contains \objautlink — an automatically linked OLE object surface that can be updated or activated when Word opens the document.
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • OlePres presentation stream in RTF OLE object medium RTF_OLEPRES_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an OlePres presentation stream. OlePres is an OLE presentation marker and is not enough on its own to identify CVE-2025-21298.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml In RTF body
    • https://fex.net/load/983458568842/49873636In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000027aa.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x27AA 4664 bytes
SHA-256: 76c7c097c35aaf0fea376812ac4a1b25ec798941727b9182f39801c3713a490c

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